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Missel Du Signe De La Croix
Book description: Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. Very Good 24mo - 13 x 9.5 cm.; (10) - 505 - (9) pp. The text is in French with the ordinary of the Mass in both French and Latin. No copyright date is given though the dates on the Table of Movable Feasts (Table Du Temps Et Des Fetes Mobiles) begin with 1899. Brown padded leather cover with gilt lettering on spine, rounded corners, gilt text block edges, one ribbon marker, a gilt inside dentelle border with endpapers that are a brown and gold patterned linen with interior leather hinges. Each page is bordered on the fore and tail edges with engraved illustration s in blue with the lower corner of the rectos only containing an engaving in brown unique to each page. Engraved frontis illustration with the title page being an engraving of four angels demonstrating the four points of the "sign of the cross". There are two other tissue protected full page engravings in the text. A rather beautiful missal. As to condition, the cover shows mild edgewear with one corner worn through. The text block edge gilding is a tad dulled, the ribbon is frayed, and a previous owner's name label on the second blank preliminary. .
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